Rats exposed to 900 MHz cell phone radiation four hours a day for 15 days showed more anxiety and poorer learning than controls, alongside reduced antioxidant enzymes, increased lipid peroxidation and neurodegenerative cells in the hippocampus, a Neurological Research study reports.
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Miscellaneous
Prosci® Launches the Prosci Portal: Innovative Virtual Workspace for Change Management
Prosci is launching the Prosci Portal, a cloud-based workspace putting its change management research and tools online, opening with an interactive version of its best practices benchmarking report and an online version of its audit template.
Drug
Faster, Easier Cures for Hepatitis C
FDA's Jeffrey Murray says newly approved drug therapies give the 3.2 million Americans with chronic hepatitis C a chance at a cure with regimens that are easier to take. Three in four patients are baby boomers, many unaware they carry the virus, and a simple blood test can detect it.
Miscellaneous
NIH scientist find six new genetic risk factors for Parkinson's
Pooling genome-wide association data from about 13,708 Parkinson's cases and 95,282 controls of European ancestry, NIH-led scientists identified more than two dozen genetic risk factors, six of them not previously reported. The study appeared in Nature Genetics.
Environment
Urgent: Take action for safer sunscreen
EWG urges readers to back the Sunscreen Innovation Act, which would set deadlines for FDA reviews of new sunscreen ingredients. Six already sold in Europe have waited over eight years, and EWG estimates half of the 462 US sunscreens it assessed would be too weak for Europe.
Miscellaneous
Medtronic Completes Acquisition of Visualase, Inc.
Medtronic completed its purchase of Visualase, a Houston company that sells an FDA-approved MRI-guided laser system for minimally invasive neurosurgery, including thermal ablation. The technology joins Medtronic's Surgical Technologies portfolio.
Environment
Heavy mobile phone users at high risk for brain tumors - study
A French case-control study of 253 glioma and 194 meningioma patients against 892 controls found the heaviest mobile phone users, at 896 lifetime hours or more, were 189% and 157% more likely to develop the two tumors. Regular users' higher glioma risk was not significant.
Disease
Diabetes mellitus linked to head and neck cancer, and other cancers
In a Taiwanese cohort of 89,089 people newly diagnosed with diabetes and matched controls, head and neck cancer occurred 1.5 times as often among the diabetes patients. Oral, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal cancers were 75%, 53% and 40% more likely.
Government
Providing Quality Family Planning Services - A CDC report
CDC and the HHS Office of Population Affairs set out joint recommendations for quality family planning services, covering contraception, pregnancy testing and counseling, help achieving pregnancy, basic infertility care, preconception health and STD services, aimed at all such providers.
Miscellaneous
NIH programs to focus on emerging areas of science
NIH's Common Fund is starting programs on how sugar modifications change proteins, how DNA is arranged within cells in four dimensions, and on controlling organ function by manipulating nerves. Director Francis Collins frames each as a five- to 10-year investment.
Disease
Sexually transmitted infections linked to prostate cancer
A meta-analysis of 47 studies published between 1971 and 2011 found men who had contracted any sexually transmitted infection were at 49% higher risk of prostate cancer. Gonorrhoea was significantly associated on its own; no other individual infection was.
Drug
FDA Teams Up for Novel Campaign on Risks of Decorative Contact Lenses
FDA, the American Optometric Association and the Entertainment Industries Council produced two public service videos with artists from American Horror Story, warning that decorative contact lenses not fitted by an eye doctor can cause infections leading to blindness.
Drug
Hepatitis C virus antiviral therapy can cause paranoid psychosis, cognitive impairment
A case report describes a 55-year-old man who developed paranoid psychosis and cognitive impairment after four months of interferon-based hepatitis C therapy. The psychosis lifted once he stopped treatment and took risperidone, but the cognitive impairment did not reverse.
Miscellaneous
News from CPSC: Public Calendar
The CPSC's weekly public calendar for July 28 through Aug. 3, 2014, listing staff meetings with outside parties and noting that no Commission briefings or meetings are scheduled for the week of July 21.
Environment
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry releases first set of data from National ALS Registry
The first National ALS Registry summary identified 12,187 people living with ALS between October 2010 and December 2011, about 4 per 100,000. The disease was more common among whites, men, non-Hispanics and people aged 60 to 69, with white rates double those of black Americans.
Miscellaneous
Crawford & Company launches Contractor Connection in the UK
Crawford & Company launched Contractor Connection in the UK, a hand-picked building repair network it says prices transparently with no add-ons or commission. Services include property repair, licensed asbestos work, drying and restoration, and onsite video of repair progress.
Environment
Chemicals in our bodies
An Environmental Working Group fundraising letter counts 10,500 unique ingredients in personal care products, 126 cosmetics ingredients the average American meets daily, and zero required to be safety-tested before sale. EWG asks for $100,000 by July 31 to keep Skin Deep going.
Lifestyle
Wireless at home could mean privacy-less
Saarland University researchers found that home automation systems controlling lighting, heating, blinds and locks leak enough data for outsiders to infer residents' behavior patterns, even when the systems are encrypted. The team presents its results at a security conference in Oxford.
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